{"title":"Announcements.","authors":"","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":"44 6","pages":"529-531"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72015723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to Port et al. (2022).","authors":"","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000894","DOIUrl":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"423"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c1/69/cri_44_5_423.PMC10549871.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10514464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silvia Sara Canetto, Lorenza Entilli, Ilaria Cerbo, Sabrina Cipolletta
{"title":"Suicide Scripts in Italian Newspapers.","authors":"Silvia Sara Canetto, Lorenza Entilli, Ilaria Cerbo, Sabrina Cipolletta","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000890","DOIUrl":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000890","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> <i>Background:</i> There is substantial variability, by culture, in suicide rates, and also in suicide beliefs and attitudes. Suicide beliefs and attitudes predict actual suicidality. They also are elements of cultural scripts of suicide. Most suicide-scripts research has been conducted in Anglophone countries. <i>Aims:</i> This study investigates women's and men's suicide scripts in Italy. <i>Methods:</i> Italy's suicide scripts, including beliefs about what causes suicide, were explored via analyses of newspaper stories (<i>N</i> = 923) of women's and men's suicides. <i>Results:</i> Italian newspapers mostly featured men's suicide stories, consistent with Italian men's higher suicide mortality. Women's suicide was narrated as an unexpected act signaling personal (e.g., emotional and private-relationship) problems. By contrast, men's suicide was framed as relatively understandable response to serious public-life/social adversities (e.g., an economic downturn), and as a death of legitimate despair. <i>Limitations:</i> Social media suicide stories were not included in this study. <i>Conclusion:</i> In Italy, as in several countries with higher male suicide mortality, female suicide is psychologized and considered irrational while male suicide is viewed as a symptom of serious public-life/social problems, and therefore as deserving respect and empathy. The preference for social explanations of male suicide, together with the empathic attitudes, may contribute to male suicide being relatively more permissible and less stigmatized, and therefore also to men's higher suicide mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"398-405"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10445473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margaret S Port, Alison M Lake, Amanda M Hoyte-Badu, Claudia L Rodriguez, Saba J Chowdhury, Alena Goldstein, Sean Murphy, Michelle Cornette, Madelyn S Gould
{"title":"Perceived Impact of COVID-19 Among Callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.","authors":"Margaret S Port, Alison M Lake, Amanda M Hoyte-Badu, Claudia L Rodriguez, Saba J Chowdhury, Alena Goldstein, Sean Murphy, Michelle Cornette, Madelyn S Gould","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000881","DOIUrl":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000881","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> <i>Background:</i> Research indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic caused increases in psychological distress and suicidal ideation. <i>Aims:</i> To describe the ways suicidal callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) perceived COVID-19 to have impacted them and assess whether these callers perceived COVID-19-related stress as contributing to their suicidal thoughts. <i>Method:</i> Telephone interviews were conducted with 412 suicidal callers to 12 Lifeline centers. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine the associations between demographic factors and individual COVID-19 stressors and to determine whether callers who endorsed COVID-19-related stress as contributing to their suicidal thoughts differed from those who did not regarding demographics, current suicide risk, history of suicidality, Lifeline use, or individual COVID-19 stressors. <i>Results:</i> Over half of callers reported that COVID-19-related stress contributed to their suicidal ideation (CRSSI). Callers who endorsed CRSSI had higher odds than those who did not of mentioning financial difficulties when asked how COVID-19 impacted them. The two groups of callers did not differ on the other factors examined. <i>Limitations:</i> Interviewed callers may not be representative of all Lifeline callers. <i>Conclusion:</i> Despite the subjective burden of COVID-19-related stress on suicidal Lifeline callers, this was not associated with new suicidality or heightened suicide risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"415-422"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ad/16/cri_44_5_415.PMC10549872.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10504276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Announcements.","authors":"","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":"44 5","pages":"442-443"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41155146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caroline Silva, Phillip N Smith, Megan Rogers, Thomas E Joiner, Brad Foote, Kimberly A Van Orden
{"title":"Clinically Significant Scores for Thwarted Belonging and Perceived Burden from the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ-15).","authors":"Caroline Silva, Phillip N Smith, Megan Rogers, Thomas E Joiner, Brad Foote, Kimberly A Van Orden","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000898","DOIUrl":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000898","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> <i>Background:</i> Social disconnection is associated with all-cause mortality and suicide. Measures of social disconnection with reliable cut-off scores are needed to aid in the assessment of clinically significant change. <i>Aims:</i> The current study sought to identify reliable clinical cut-off scores for the 15-item Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ-15), which assesses two indices of social disconnection associated with suicide ideation - thwarted belonging (TB) and perceived burden (PB) on others. <i>Methods:</i> The INQ-15 and measures of suicide ideation were administered to psychiatric outpatients (<i>N</i><sub>sample1</sub> = 493; <i>N</i><sub>sample2</sub> = 213) and psychiatric inpatients (<i>N</i><sub>sample3</sub> = 79; <i>N</i><sub>sample4</sub> = 87). <i>Results:</i> Reliable cut-off scores discriminating between the presence and absence of suicide ideation were identified across samples (TB ≥ 36 for psychiatric outpatients and ≥ 32 for inpatients; PB ≥ 12 for both psychiatric outpatients and inpatients). <i>Limitations:</i> Data are cross-sectional; thus, conclusions cannot be made about the predictive utility of INQ scores for future suicide ideation, attempts, or death. <i>Conclusions:</i> The INQ-15 yields scores with reliable cut-off scores for both TB and PB that represent clinically significant levels of social disconnection. These cut-off scores can be used in treatment trials and clinical practice to assess clinical improvement (or decline) in belonging and perceived burden.</p>","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"406-414"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10412729/pdf/nihms-1908815.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10022741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicola A Chen, Katherine Mok, Lauren J McGillivray, Paul Konings, Jason Passioura, Michelle H Torok
{"title":"Hotel Suicides in Australia 2006-2017.","authors":"Nicola A Chen, Katherine Mok, Lauren J McGillivray, Paul Konings, Jason Passioura, Michelle H Torok","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000888","DOIUrl":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000888","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> <i>Background:</i> This study investigated the frequency, characteristics, and geospatial clustering of hotel suicides in Australia to inform suicide prevention efforts. <i>Aims:</i> (1) To determine the proportion of suicide deaths that occurred in hotels, (2) to determine differences in demographic characteristics of hotel deaths compared to other locations, (3) to assess level of planning, and (4) to determine whether these deaths form geographic clusters amenable to targeted suicide prevention activities. <i>Methods:</i> Archival data on suicide mortality were used to examine associations between incident location (hotels, home, away from home), demographic characteristics, and suicide means. Kernel density visualization was used to assess geospatial clustering of hotel suicides, and the degree of planning involved was assessed using the modified Suicide Intent Scale. <i>Results:</i> Hotels accounted for 2% of all suicide deaths and 6.2% of suicides occurring away from home. Females were over-represented (<i>p</i> < .0001), as were deaths by drug overdoses (<i>p</i> < .0001) and falls (<i>p</i> < .0001). Approximately 40% of incidents occurred within seven geospatial clusters. 85% of those who died were state residents, with a median distance from home of 13.0 km. Most individuals checked in to the hotel alone, for short stays, and displayed a high degree of suicidal planning. <i>Limitations:</i> Coronial records had limited information on narrative circumstances of deaths; other indicators of risk may not have been identified. A comparison against a general population of hotel guests, rather than all other suicide deaths would be more useful in terms of preventative activities, however these data were not readily available. <i>Conclusion:</i> This study identified characteristics, behaviors, and geographic locations associated with hotel suicides to inform training of hotel staff to recognize and respond to signs of risk. Males of working age who live locally and arrive alone for short stays could be considered at a higher risk of suicide, and prevention efforts should be prioritized in the identified high-risk areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"380-388"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10385742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Childhood Trauma and Suicide.","authors":"Olivia Rogerson, Thom Baguley, Daryl B O'Connor","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000886","DOIUrl":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> <i>Background:</i> Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and childhood trauma has been found to be an important risk factor. However, the mechanisms linking trauma to suicide risk remain unclear. <i>Aims:</i> The current registered report sought to (1) investigate whether childhood trauma and its subtypes were related to suicide risk in adulthood and (2) explore the potential mechanisms associating childhood trauma with suicide and well-being, especially executive functioning, impulsivity, and stress. <i>Method:</i> A cross-sectional survey of 457 individuals who reported experiencing suicide ideation in the past 12 months. <i>Results:</i> Childhood trauma and its subtypes were associated with an increased risk of reporting recent suicide thoughts, COVID-19-related suicide attempts, and recent suicide attempts. There were also significant indirect effects of childhood trauma on recent suicide ideation and well-being through executive functioning and impulsivity. <i>Conclusion:</i> These findings show that childhood trauma is associated with suicide risk in adulthood and suggest that poorer executive functioning and higher levels of impulsivity contribute to this increased risk. These results have implications for the development of future interventions to reduce suicide vulnerability.</p>","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"433-441"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10385741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric J Linskens, Noah C Venables, Allison M Gustavson, Nina A Sayer, Maureen Murdoch, Roderick MacDonald, Kristen E Ullman, Lauren G McKenzie, Timothy J Wilt, Shahnaz Sultan
{"title":"Population- and Community-Based Interventions to Prevent Suicide.","authors":"Eric J Linskens, Noah C Venables, Allison M Gustavson, Nina A Sayer, Maureen Murdoch, Roderick MacDonald, Kristen E Ullman, Lauren G McKenzie, Timothy J Wilt, Shahnaz Sultan","doi":"10.1027/0227-5910/a000873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000873","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> <i>Background:</i> Suicide is estimated to account for 1.4% of deaths worldwide, making it among the leading causes of premature death. Public health approaches to reduce suicide have the potential to reach individuals across the spectrum of suicide risk. <i>Aims:</i> To review the effectiveness of newer community-based or population-level suicide prevention strategies. <i>Methods:</i> We conducted a systematic review of literature published from January 2010 to November 2020 to evaluate the effectiveness of community- and population-level interventions. The US Center for Disease Control framework was used for grouping studies by strategy. <i>Results:</i> We included 56 publications that described 47 unique studies. Interventions that reduce access to lethal means, implement organizational policies and culture in police workplace settings, and involve community screening for depression may reduce suicide deaths. It is unclear if other interventions such as public awareness and education campaigns, crisis lines, and gatekeeper training prevent suicide. Evidence was inconsistent for community-based, multistrategy interventions. The most promising multistrategy intervention was the European Alliance Against Depression. <i>Limitations:</i> Most eligible studies were observational and many lacked concurrent control groups or adjustment for confounding variables. <i>Conclusions:</i> Community-based interventions that may reduce suicide deaths include reducing access to lethal means, implementing organizational policies in workplace settings, screening for depression, and the multistrategy European Alliance Against Depression Program. Evidence was unclear, inconsistent, or lacking regarding the impact of many other single- or multistrategy interventions on suicide deaths.</p>","PeriodicalId":47943,"journal":{"name":"Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention","volume":"44 4","pages":"330-340"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9944955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}